Parr (1797 ship)

Parr was launched in 1797 at Liverpool as a slave ship. Lloyd's Register for 1797 had a Parr, 450 tons (bm), of Liverpool, Christian, master.[2]

History
Great Britain
Name: Parr
Owner: Thomas Parr[1]
Builder: Liverpool
Launched: 1797
Fate: Burnt 1798
General characteristics
Type: Ship
Tons burthen: 450,[2] or 566[3][1] (bm)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 80,[3] or 97[1]
Armament: 32 x 18-pounder guns[3]

Captain David Christian acquired a letter of marque on 5 December 1797,[3] and sailed for the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands on 5 February 1798; he gathered his slaves at Bonny Island.[1]

Lloyd's List reported that Parr, Christian, master, caught fire and blew up in 1798, off the coast of Africa as she was sailing from there for the West Indies. Twenty-nine of her crew and some 300 slaves were saved.[4] Christian apparently died.[5] (Two or three years earlier he had been master of Othello when she too had caught fire while gathering slaves.) Other records indicate that Parr had a crew of 97 men and had embarked some 200 slaves. The surviving slaves were shipped on other vessels.[1]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages: Parr.
  2. Lloyd's Register (1797), Supplemental pages "P".
  3. "Letter of Marque, p.80 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. Lloyd's List №3031.
  5. Transactions (1991), p.110.

References

  • Transactions of the Historic society of Lancashire and Chester. (1991). Vol. 140. (Alan Sutton). ISSN 0140-332X
  • Inikori, Joseph E. (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (№312): 53–92.
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